Wellington, New Zealand technology start-up Lynker Analytics has been selected by the NZ Ministry for the Environment to lead a consortium including UAV Mapping NZ and Carbon Forest Services to inventory the extent of forest loss in New Zealand during 2017 and 2018. Source: Timberbiz

Building approvals in the 2019 calendar year were 18.5% lower compared with 2018, which has been a significant drag on the national economy according to HIA Economist, Angela Lillicrap. Source: Timberbiz The Australian Bureau of Statistics released its monthly building approvals data

Michelle Corby from Mangan Logging has joined the Australian Forestry Contractors Association (AFCA) board. Ms Corby has worked for Mangan Logging, which has been her family’s business for 13 years. Source: Timberbiz Mangan Logging is a third-generation business started in 1961

David Littleproud has been welcomed back to the Agriculture Ministry by Australia’s forest industries. Mr Littleproud will give up his water portfolio – described in some circles as a poisoned chalice following years of tension throughout the Murray-Darling Basin amid an unprecedented

Employers, industry groups and the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union have co-funded a TV advertisement to thank workers in the timber industry who performed and are performing vital work to protect homes and lives during the recent and current bushfires. Source: T

The CFMEU believes more can be done for timber workers by allowing the industry into the burnt coupes to salvage some of the wood there, much of which may still be usable by the region’s sawmills and woodchip processors. Source: Timberbiz The union, which is campaigning hard against t

There is now no denying it. The Victorian timber industry is under siege from all fronts. Even VicForests seems to have turned against it. By Bruce Mitchell This week alone has seen: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews hint that the Government “may well have to revise” its plan to shut d

The strike in Finland’s paper industry has been extended. The Finnish paper mills of leading forest groups such as UPM and Stora Enso have been standing still. There is still no progress in negotiations between Finland’s paper industry trade union Paperiliitto and the Finn

California experienced the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in its history in 2017 and 2018. Fuelled by drought, an unprecedented build-up of dry vegetation and extreme winds, the size and intensity of these wildfires caused the loss of more than 100 lives, destroyed thousands